News tagged with disk
What Comes After Hard Drives?
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...
Gyrowheel to keep new bike riders upright (w/ Video)
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new device called the Gyrowheel could soon revolutionize the way children learn to ride bicycles, and they will be able to learn on their own, without training wheels, and in as little as ...
GE Shows Off 1TB DVD-Sized Disks at the Emerging Tech Conference
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the September '09 Emerging Tech Conference in Boston, GE announced it has been developing a 1TB DVD size disk that can be read by a modified Blu-ray player.
Is the Milky Way doomed to be destroyed by galactic bombardment? Probably not
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As scientists attempt to learn more about how galaxies evolve, an open question has been whether collisions with our dwarf galactic neighbors will one day tear apart the disk of the Milky ...
Beating the back-up blues
Apr 03, 2009 |
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That sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven't backed up your holiday photos is a step closer to becoming a thing of the past thanks to research into a new kind of computer memory.
Erratic black holes regulate their growth (w/Videos)
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a major advance in explaining how a special class of black holes may shut off the high-speed jets they produce. These results suggest ...
A dark matter disk in our Galaxy
Sep 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists predict that our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter’. In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers ...
Time to clean up your digital closet
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Let's jump ahead 50 years. Imagine your grandchildren are rummaging around in your attic, looking through old boxes and trunks. They discover laptops, hard drives wrapped in cloth, DVDs, and maybe even a real antique: A ...
VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive ...
XBox forensics
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 30, 2009 |
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A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law en ...
Cloud computing: a new horizon
Apr 16, 2009 |
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The outlook is bleak for laptops, hard drives and desktops - clouds are on the horizon and could change the way we use computers forever. For some, the ‘cloud’ is just the latest technological craze, but for ...
Samsung Launches 1.5 Terabyte 'EcoGreen' F2EG Hard Disk Drive
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more ...
Probing Question: Can we save today's documents for tomorrow?
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Even though your grandparents’ old photo albums are yellowed and grainy, they’re still there for you and your family to enjoy. But will your grandchildren be able to say the same of the digital photo albums ...
New control of nanoscale 'magnetic tornadoes' holds promise for data storage
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic ...
Iconic rings and flares of galaxies created by violent, intergalactic collisions
Nov 21, 2008 |
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The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of dark matter, according to a ...
